shiftedadj.
/ˈʃɪftɪd/ In senses of the verb. †Of a snake: That has changed its skin. Of a ship's ballast or cargo (see quot. 1769).
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the world > movement > [adjective] > having moved
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the world > space > direction > [adjective] > changed in direction
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > moved from position (of cargo or ballast)
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a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 23 Like a shifted winde vnto a saile, It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about. View more context for this quotation
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. O The roome is hung with the blew skin Of shifted Snake.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 517 All Things are alter'd, nothing is destroy'd, The shifted Scene, for some new Show employ'd.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Shifted, the state of a ship's ballast or cargo when it is shaken from one side to the other.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 132 Even with the shifted Poise and footing of my thought.
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